The Institute for Research on World-Systems

eScholarship stats: History by Item for December, 2024 through March, 2025

Item	Title	Total requests	2025-03	2025-02	2025-01	2024-12
97p470sx	Why Has the Number of International Non-Governmental Organizations Exploded since 1960?	1,344	304	903	71	66
8cs3q9xt	A review essay on End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin (Penguin Random House 2023)	842	103	155	227	357
9jj9j6z7	Resetting History’s Dial? A Critique of David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity	727	167	162	162	236
6qp8x28p	Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability	660	146	139	177	198
3wc3p3hf	Early Cities in The Dawn of Everything: Shoddy Scholarship in Support of Pedestrian Conclusions	655	83	467	53	52
2rf8c7zk	Explaining British Political Stability After 1832	534	68	78	72	316
4zf15659	State Crisis Theory: A Unification of Institutional, Socio-ecological, Demographic-structural, World-systems, and Revolutions Research	460	118	83	119	140
5mv6v0r1	A Dynamic Theory of Battle Victory and Defeat	420	124	94	90	112
9qx38718	Seshat: The Global History Databank	351	109	83	77	82
2cz4q2jq	The Growth and Decline of the Western Roman Empire: Quantifying the Dynamics of Army Size, Territory, and Coinage	339	97	66	94	82
8jr9v920	The Evolution of War	328	89	98	78	63
6n09f7gr	For Cause and Comrade: Devoted Actors and Willingness to Fight	310	56	49	110	95
82s3p5hj	Toward Cliodynamics – an Analytical, Predictive Science of History	276	73	57	83	63
0g05k07v	A History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social Breakdown, Recovery, and Resilience	246	76	62	48	60
15d7j27x	Never Ending Revolutions	237	49	55	62	71
981121t8	Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems	236	83	56	46	51
8bm04882	Inequality and Institutions: A Review Essay on Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson	219	50	51	55	63
4b11h9k0	A Bayesian Approach to Survivorship Bias in Historical Data Analysis	216	49	50	54	63
43w3q5kp	Institutional Rigidity and Evolutionary Theory: Trapped on a Local Maximum	215	56	47	45	67
04n6p4xr	Great Divergence of the 18th Century?	209	90	45	47	27
72g2v469	Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability in the United Kingdom after 1960: A Demographic Structural Analysis	202	45	49	56	52
79t737gt	A Trap At The Escape From The Trap? Demographic-Structural Factors of Political Instability in Modern Africa and West Asia	201	48	45	62	46
9v71n5h4	A ‘Perfect Storm’ in the Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization? Useful Insights and Roads not Taken	195	49	43	44	59
74j910z1	Indo-Europeans Were the Most Historically Significant Nomads of the Steppes	189	28	57	52	52
8r85g67d	Demographic Structural Theory: 25 Years On	187	55	36	49	47
4t32q1mj	Anvil Age Economy: A Map of the Spread of Iron Metallurgy across Afro-Eurasia	186	49	39	56	42
1sj9n878	Circumscription Theory of the Origins of the State: A Cross-Cultural Re-Analysis	180	43	37	44	56
6jz4h6rt	International Systems and Cognitive Dissonances: beyond rational agents	163	32	30	47	54
3062j4rm	A Single Historical Continuum	154	37	47	42	28
0p5244s1	Understanding Waves of Globalization and Resistance in the Capitalist World(-)System*:Social Movements and Critical Global(ization) Studies	153	33	26	43	51
79b6v6tv	The Silk Roads: a Mathematical Model	152	23	30	62	37
93b5m968	On Similarities between Biological and Social Evolutionary Mechanisms: Mathematical Modeling	152	38	41	38	35
8xp4b5g3	Adapting to Population Growth: The Evolutionary Alternative to Malthus	151	45	37	32	37
82g096mc	Multicultural vs. Post-Multicultural World History: A Review Essay	147	43	45	22	37
63v195gz	Cultural Evolution and Cliodynamics	142	38	39	36	29
4h29270b	Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses	140	40	42	29	29
5j8740dz	The Roman Dominate from the Perspective of Demographic-Structural Theory	139	44	35	44	16
3tk971d2	Complexity in Big History	135	39	42	34	20
2v8119hf	A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution	133	42	38	33	20
29w8q73h	The Governance and Leadership of Prehispanic Mesoamerican Polities: New Perspectives and Comparative Implications	131	46	41	29	15
114911nd	The Evolution of Human Cooperation	130	44	42	24	20
3790p0p0	A Review of Tim Lewens' Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges	130	57	23	30	20
4836f93g	The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity: Five Predictions and a Drum Roll	128	29	41	32	26
6x84w6mm	Rediscovering Democracy: A Review of The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today by David Stasavage (Princeton University Press, 2020)	127	25	35	24	43
5536t55r	Cycling in the Complexity of Early Societies	126	32	29	31	34
9j45z2s3	Stop making sense	124	36	39	22	27
24f0h2t3	Introduction to Special Issue: Leading Scholars of the Past Comment on Dawn of Everything	119	42	20	24	33
5gm4955z	The Big Gods of Exploitation? A Review of Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict by Ara Norenzayan (Princeton University Press, 2013)	117	27	27	38	25
5bg8f4r1	Complexities of Collapse: A Review of "Understanding Collapse: Ancient History and Modern Myths" by Guy D. Middleton (Cambridge University Press, 2017)	114	37	32	35	10
99q0d3k2	Exploring Phenomenological Models for Societal and Technological Transitions of the Neolithic Revolution and Early Civilization Formation.	113	31	22	17	43

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